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Associating Protocol Stacks with Logical Boards

Once the logical boards have been defined, the next step is to associate each desired protocol stack with one or more logical boards. Each active protocol stack must have at least one logical board that it can use to send and receive datagrams. Each association of a protocol stack with a logical board is known as a binding. Note that not all protocol stacks can bind with all types of logical boards. While IPX can usually bind to any type of logical board, TCP/IP can often only bind with logical boards using one particular frame type on any particular type of physical network.

Once these bindings are complete, applications will be able to use the high-level programming interfaces of the protocol stacks to communicate on the network without regard to the details of underlying network adapters, network topologies, or frame types.